Louise Taper lists seven-bedroom Beverly Park home

Historian Louise Taper has put her 4.2-acre estate on the market at $18 million.

Historian Louise Taper has put her 4.2-acre estate on the market at $18 million. (Prudential California)

Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times

Abraham Lincoln manuscript and artifact collector Louise Taper has put her Beverly Park estate on the market at $18 million.

The two-story Colonial, built in 1988, was previously the personal residence of Beverly Park developer Brian Adler. Taper remodeled and enlarged the house to its current 13,500-square-foot size.

The city view house has a grand entry foyer; a den with a bar; seven bedrooms, one of which is being used as a 16-seat theater; 10 bathrooms and staff quarters. The nearly 4.25 acres of grounds include gardens, a swimming pool, a motorcourt and expansive lawns.

The name Taper is a familiar one to Los Angeles performing arts lovers. The Mark Taper Forum at the Los Music Center is named after real estate developer and philanthropist S. Mark Taper. His son Barry married Louise, who was widowed in 2001 and later remarried. She amassed a collection of Lincoln memorabilia that was purchased by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., for an estimated $20 million.